Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn more about the history of local abolitionists at a “Civil War Roundtable.” The event ...

The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) participated in a public ceremony honoring African American soldiers that fought ...

The "Abolition Acre" self-guided walking tour was recently established by the nonprofit Beacon Hill Scholars to raise ...

A continual torment -- The first American martyr -- A difficult year -- A field of blood -- The distant goal -- The African mirage -- The Constitutional rag -- The ameliorative President -- Soft ...

The party -- The puritan -- The pioneer -- The patriarch -- The pauper -- The plan -- Pottawatomie -- Pariah and legend -- The promoter -- Plotting multiculturally ...

Commentary: Ending all vestiges of slavery would remain unfinished business for years. That’s because slavery was deeply ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center (630 7th Avenue, Rock Island) will host a three part screening and discussion of the 2013 American Experience documentary The Abolitionists. The center's ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...